ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,412, issued on May 20, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Device for activating/deactivating an airbag function in a vehicle" was invented by Bernd Jakobs (Nuremberg, Germany), Harald Krause (Ingolstadt, Germany), Jorg Muller (Eitensheim, Germany) and Markus Prummer (Vohburg-Rockolding, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for activating/deactivating an airbag function of an airbag assigned to a vehicle seat in a vehicle, having an identification system for occupant identification and having an evaluation unit, by which the occupant located on the vehicle seat is classifiable on the basis of the sensor data of...